Pakistani diaspora
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The Pakistani Voice That Isn’t in the Room
X.T.M relays BB’s observation that Pakistan’s case at BP is argued almost wholly by people abroad, while India is argued by residents. The note argues the case is untested rather…
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Why is Pakistani Culture obsessed with Policing Female Virginity?
X.T.M reflects on an overheard story of a Pakistani-origin daughter in Europe and the murders of Sana Cheema and Qandeel Baloch. The post argues that policing a daughter’s body remains…
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Review: Hell! No Saints in Paradise
Omar Ali reviews A. K. Asif’s debut novel, a dystopian satire of Pakistan in 2050 under a Khalifa. He calls it smart and literate, not serious literature, aimed at aspects…
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White privilege, and how to get it
Citing an infographic showing Indian American women out-earning white men while Pakistani and Bangladeshi women earn less, the author attributes the Indian gap to human capital and asks how those…
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Film Review: What Will People Say?
A review, with spoilers, of What Will People Say?, in which a Pakistani teenage girl in Norway is taken to Pakistan by her father after being caught with a boy.…
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Episode 63: Zack Ajmal, Pakistani American in Pakistan
A Brown Pundits podcast episode in conversation with Zack Ajmal, a Pakistani American who recently visited Pakistan, has known the host since 2002 and was behind the Harappa DNA Project,…
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Imran Khan in DC
Noting that some 30,000 Pakistani Americans gathered in Washington to hear Imran Khan, the author asks why a leader facing economic crisis draws such crowds when Bangladesh is doing better,…
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South Asian nationalism
Responding to a tweet about being sorry to be mistaken for Pakistani, the author says many liberal Indian Americans are highly nationalistic and switch between left-liberal and nationalist views, and…
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10 Indians who have made a global marki
X.T.M posts his wife’s list of Indians and Pakistanis who have made a global impact, with his and Kabir’s additions, noting Pakistanis do not scale the same peaks as Indians.
